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| DOI | 10.1038/s41558-021-01014-9 |
| Winter melt trends portend widespread declines in snow water resources | |
| Musselman K.N.; Addor N.; Vano J.A.; Molotch N.P. | |
| 发表日期 | 2021 |
| ISSN | 1758678X |
| 英文摘要 | In many mountainous regions, winter precipitation accumulates as snow that melts in the spring and summer, which provides water to one billion people globally. Climate warming and earlier snowmelt compromise this natural water storage. Although snowpack trend analyses commonly focus on the snow water equivalent (SWE), we propose that trends in the accumulation season snowmelt serve as a critical indicator of hydrological change. Here we compare long-term changes in the snowmelt and SWE from snow monitoring stations in western North America and find 34% of stations exhibit increasing winter snowmelt trends (P < 0.05), a factor of three larger than the 11% showing SWE declines (P < 0.05). Snowmelt trends are highly sensitive to temperature and an underlying warming signal, whereas SWE trends are more sensitive to precipitation variability. Thus, continental-scale snow water resources are in steeper decline than inferred from SWE trends alone. More winter snowmelt will complicate future water resource planning and management. ? 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited. |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 来源期刊 | Nature Climate Change
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| 文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
| 条目标识符 | http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/178805 |
| 作者单位 | Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States; Geography, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom; Aspen Global Change Institute, Basalt, CO, United States; Department of Geography, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Musselman K.N.,Addor N.,Vano J.A.,et al. Winter melt trends portend widespread declines in snow water resources[J],2021. |
| APA | Musselman K.N.,Addor N.,Vano J.A.,&Molotch N.P..(2021).Winter melt trends portend widespread declines in snow water resources.Nature Climate Change. |
| MLA | Musselman K.N.,et al."Winter melt trends portend widespread declines in snow water resources".Nature Climate Change (2021). |
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